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Canto 3

The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release

The Seer, Savitri’s Father

A world’s desire compelled her mortal birth.

One in the front of the immemorial quest,

Protagonist of the mysterious play

In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms

And limits his eternity by the hours

And the blind Void struggles to live and see,

A thinker and toiler in the ideal’s air,

Brought down to earth’s dumb need her radiant power.

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The Growing Divinity

This bodily appearance is not all;

The form deceives, the person is a mask;

Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell.

His fragile ship conveys through the sea of years

An incognito of the Imperishable.

A spirit that is a flame of God abides,

A fiery portion of the Wonderful,

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Aswapati’s Growth into Larger Self

As so he grew into his larger self,

Humanity framed his movements less and less;

A greater being saw a greater world.

A fearless will for knowledge dared to erase

The lines of safety Reason draws that bar

Mind’s soar, soul’s dive into the Infinite.

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A Magical Accord

A magical accord quickened and attuned

To ethereal symphonies the old earthy strings;

It raised the servitors of mind and life

To be happy partners in the soul’s response,

Tissue and nerve were turned to sensitive chords,

Records of lustre and ecstasy; it made

The body’s means the spirit’s acolytes.

A heavenlier function with a finer mode

Lit with its grace man’s outward earthliness;

The soul’s experience of its deeper sheaths

No more slept drugged by Matter’s dominance.

In the dead wall closing us from wider self,

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The Inner Planes

The inner planes uncovered their crystal doors;

Strange powers and influences touched his life.

A vision came of higher realms than ours,

A consciousness of brighter fields and skies,

Of beings less circumscribed than brief-lived men

And subtler bodies than these passing frames,

Objects too fine for our material grasp,

Acts vibrant with a superhuman light

And movements pushed by a superconscient force,

And joys that never flowed through mortal limbs,

And lovelier scenes than earth’s and happier lives.

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Time’s Drama

In the unceasing drama carried by Time

On its long listening flood that bears the world’s

Insoluble doubt on a pilgrimage without goal,

A laughter of sleepless pleasure foamed and spumed

And murmurings of desire that cannot die:

A cry came of the world’s delight to be,

The grandeur and greatness of its will to live,

Recall of the soul’s adventure into space,

A traveller through the magic centuries

And being’s labour in Matter’s universe,

Its search for the mystic meaning of its birth

And joy of high spiritual response,

Its throb of satisfaction and content

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New Discovery

In every hour loosed from the quiver of Time

There rose a song of new discovery,

A bow-twang’s hum of young experiment.

Each day was a spiritual romance,

As if he was born into a bright new world;

Adventure leaped an unexpected friend,

And danger brought a keen sweet tang of joy;

Each happening was a deep experience.

There were high encounters, epic colloquies,

And counsels came couched in celestial speech,

And honeyed pleadings breathed from occult lips

To help the heart to yield to rapture’s call,

And sweet temptations stole from beauty’s realms

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Silent Self

Out of this world of signs suddenly he came

Into a silent self where world was not

And looked beyond into a nameless vast.

These symbol figures lost their right to live,

All tokens dropped our sense can recognise;

There the heart beat no more at body’s touch,

There the eyes gazed no more on beauty’s shape.

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Beyond Thought

This huge material universe became

A small result of a stupendous force:

Overtaking the moment the eternal Ray

Illumined That which never yet was made.

Thought lay down in a mighty voicelessness;

The toiling Thinker widened and grew still,

Wisdom transcendent touched his quivering heart:

His soul could sail beyond thought’s luminous bar;

Mind screened no more the shoreless infinite.

Across a void retreating sky he glimpsed

Through a last glimmer and drift of vanishing stars

The superconscient realms of motionless Peace

Where judgment ceases and the word is mute

And the Unconceived lies pathless and alone.

There came not form or any mounting voice;

There only were Silence and the Absolute.

Out of that stillness mind new-born arose

And woke to truths once inexpressible,

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The Unseen Guide

He comes unseen into our darker parts

And, curtained by the darkness, does his work,

A subtle and all-knowing guest and guide,

Till they too feel the need and will to change.

All here must learn to obey a higher law,

Our body’s cells must hold the Immortal’s flame.

Else would the spirit reach alone its source

Leaving a half-saved world to its dubious fate.

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Inspiration

Oft inspiration with her lightning feet,

A sudden messenger from the all-seeing tops,

Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind

Bringing her rhythmic sense of hidden things.

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The Universe as God’s Body

The universe was not now this senseless whirl

Borne round inert on an immense machine;

It cast away its grandiose lifeless front,

A mechanism no more or work of Chance,

But a living movement of the body of God.

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Release from Ignorance

Thus came his soul’s release from Ignorance,

His mind and body’s first spiritual change.

A wide God-knowledge poured down from above,

A new world-knowledge broadened from within:

His daily thoughts looked up to the True and One,

His commonest doings welled from an inner Light.

Awakened to the lines that Nature hides,

Attuned to her movements that exceed our ken,

He grew one with a covert universe.

His grasp surprised her mightiest energies’ springs;

He spoke with the unknown Guardians of the worlds,

Forms he descried our mortal eyes see not.

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